A Home Straight Out of a Modern Day Fairy Tale

To conjure up an a whimsical, enchanted-forest look for a prewar Greenwich Village apartment, designer Fawn Galli chose a minty green color scheme, lightened the floors, and played with furniture scale. For more decorating ideas, read an interview with the designer.

Fantastical Bedroom

Fantastical Bedroom

Lolly, the family poodle, lounges in the Dorothy Draper-influenced master bedroom. Galli chose the overscale Cole & Son wallpaper, Lily, for "the fairy-tale feeling." The lily pads and the Old World Weavers green velvet, Languedoc, on the headboard evoke the romance of a garden pond. The French Canopy chair from Artistic Frame is covered in Beacon Hill's In Between.

Mint Living Room

Mint Living Room

To bring a feeling of nature into a New York living room, designer Fawn Galli used a custom minty green: "I don't think a color should be too saturated or strong on a wall." Pal Smith chairs in a cheetah print — Safari by Manuel Canovas — with a Paley sofa from Profiles, a Fiona Curran Palette carpet for the Rug Company, and a painting by Anne Siems give the room "a sense of storybook fantasy."